[B1] GENERAL TOPOLOGY 1995/96

Literature

G.Simmons. Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis. McGraw-Hill,1963

Schedule

25 March
Introduction. The subject of Topology. Sets, relations and operations.
Problems. 1 3 a,b,c; 2 1,3,5.
28 March
Functions. Products of sets.
Problems. 3 1,2,3,4; 4 1.
29 March
Relations. Equivalence. Theorem of Schröder-Bernstein. Countable sets.
Problems 5 1,2,4,5; 7 1,3,6,7,8.
9 April
Uncountable sets. Continuum. Real numbers.
Problems: 7 : 1,2,3,5.
11 April
Metric spaces. Examples. Properties of open sets.
Problems: 9 1,4,5,6; 10 1,2,5,7,9.
12 April
Closed sets.
Problems: 11 1,2,4,7,10,13.
15 April
Convergence and completeness in metric spaces.
Problems 12 1,3,4,7.
Continuous mappings.
Problems: 13 1,2,3,6,8,9.
18 April
Spaces of continuous functions. Normed and Banach spaces.
Problems: 14 1,2,3,5.
19 April
Euclidean and unitary spaces.
Problems: 15 1,3,4.
22 April
Definition of Topological spaces.
Problems. 16 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10,11.
25 April
Closed sets in topological spaces.
Problems 17 1,2,3,6,7,9.
26 April
Bases of topology.
Problems. 18 2,3, 4,7,8,9.
Function algebras.
29 April
Compact spaces: main properties.
Problems: 21 1,2,4,6,7,8,9.
30 April
Products of spaces. Tikhonov's theorem.
Problems: 22 1,5; 23 3,4.
3 May
Compactness in metric spaces.
Problems: 24 3,4. Ascoli's theorem.
6 May
T1 and Hausdorff spaces.
Problems: 26 1,2,4,5,6,8
9 May
Regular and normal spaces. Extension theorems.
Problems: 27 1,2,3; 28 3.
10 May
Connected spaces.
Problems: 31 1,3,4.
Components.
Problems: 32 1,4,5,6
13 May
Stone-Weierstrass Theorem.
14 May
Locally compact Hausdorff spaces.
Problems: 37 1,3

Additional topics are obligatory for PhD students

20 May
The notion of homotopy. Homotopic mappings.
Problems of topological and Homotopical classification.
21 May
Mappings in Euclidean space. Invertibility.
23 May
Smooth manifolds. Compact manifolds.
27 May
The method of algebraic topology. The fundamental group.
28 May
Coverings. Calculation of fundamental groups. Applications.

Grigori Rozenblioum <grigori@math.chalmers.se>


Lars Alexandersson <larsa@math.chalmers.se>
Last modified April 26, 1996